Dr Brian O'Halloran
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Die hard Cruyffian. Ex astrophysicist. QPR devotee, for my multiple sins. Single parent. @playingwithdust @mstdn .social on Mastodon
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Just remembered this - Mike Collins was great.
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So, for the time capsule segment in
#Census2022
tonight, I'm going to mention my daughter who was stillborn when we lived in the US.
She doesn't exist officially elsewhere, and I'd like her to be remembered.
Her name was Lauren, and she will be remembered forever.
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Great Gene Wilder story, who died 4 years ago yesterday.
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The local bishop in Waterford decrying Taylor Swift as an awful sinful influence at my youngest's Confirmation was a hilarious and awkward moment to say the least.
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My gravely ill QPR loving uncle Michael got an unexpected visit from
@AndySintonQPR
&
@PJMorrissey77
- & was invited by them to
@QPR
's home game vs Rotherham as the clubs guest!
He's really delighted to say the least!
Thank you, Andy & Paul and all at
@QPR
!
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The fact that Peadar Toibin is backing up Sonia O'Sullivan on her stance regarding trans athletes tells you everything that you need to know about their stances.
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Spotted this....a spectacular composite shot of the Rose Fitzgerald bridge near New Ross and the Milky Way arcing upwards, taken last night. Photo by Trevor Quinn.
You definitely need to click on this one..
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Sad to hear that Stan Bowles, QPR's greatest player, is gravely ill and not expected to last much longer.
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Jack Chambers failing to get a cabinet place, despite his hopes and dreams, is definitely the origin story for him to become a supervillain.
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@ThePlanetaryGuy
@Komet123Jager
This was Comet Leonard yesterday from La Palma - the tail is stunning.
Original pic by
@JanHattenbach
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The editorial values of the Irish Times are shocking these days.
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Her grandson.
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“Other scientists cautioned that the rapid spread of the variant did not necessarily mean that it was more transmissible.” — The Times
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Leaning towards voting
#YesNo
in the upcoming referenda. The concerns of carers seem to be completely swept under the table here.
We can do better.
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My uncle, who's terminally ill, is going to QPR today. Despite the health risks involved, I'm delighted for him, as quite frankly, you need to have some joy in life.
Particularly when everything else is so grim. Fingers crossed for an excellent day out for him.
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The Italian backroom staff is a reunion of the Sampdoria team that won Serie A in 1991..
#ITAESP
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We may have to stop people coming from the UK. They've completely lost control.
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The Irish Times needs to have a serious look at itself with their COVID agenda.
Extremely irresponsible line to take.
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@daraobriain
Know the feeling, Dara - have done the same since the summer.
Little luck weather wise for the conjunction, but did take this early Sunday morning.
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Northern lights visible from my front door on the Copper Coast in Waterford.
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@IanDunt
From outside the UK, we view them as pro-Brexit. It's what the leadership wants. Pity.
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Not sure that people over here in Europe are realising how damaging those anti veteran remarks are to Donald Trump. If there's one thing that unites most Americans, it's that extremely deep reverence for its armed forces. This will run and run until Election Day.
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So while on the way home this evening.... this flew out just in front of me, outside of Bunmahon. If I'd been a few tens of meters ahead, it'd have hit me as I drove past.
Wild out here on the Waterford coast...
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@AndreaMann
@RufusTSuperfly
This comes to mind.
“I used to play King Lear.”
The late Bob Hoskins on discovering the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, in which he played Mario, was based on a video game.
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The Healey Raes and Shane Ross seem like FDR, Willy Brandt and JFK in comparison to the likes of BoJo and JRM.
#brexitmehole
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Got up early this image to get my last image of
#CometLeonard
- it'll dive too close to the Sun for us to see from Ireland from now on (and the weather forecast is poor for the next while).
GT81/EOS 250D, 4 X 30 second exposures. 2012-12-10, @ 0629 UT.
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@donaloflynn
@rgecl
@NASAWebb
As these objects are so far away - the foreground cluster itself is 4.6 billion light years away, any proper motion is imperceptible. The field will look exactly the same tens of thousands of years from now.
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My daughter was stillborn 14 years ago today. Still seems like yesterday. Thinking of her today.
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There's northern lights visible from the Waterford coast tonight! Weak, but definitely visible by eye.
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Northern lights from the Copper Coast in Waterford, Ireland right now!
#astronomy
#aurora
@TamithaSkov
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Four of my primary and secondary school teachers were at my talk today - that was really lovely to have them there.
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What a morning on the
#CopperCoast
, lads.
Let's hope it stays as clear tonight for possible
#northernlights
!
#Waterford
#ireland
#aurora
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Waterford's extremely low rate is just extraordinary: really curious as to why it has remained consistently low.
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The Suir and Sliabh na mBán, as seen from my hometown of Carrick on Suir.
Love this view. Photo by Hugh Faulkner.
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The English papers getting it spectacularly wrong with their front pages on
#Maradona
.
This is how it's done.
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@CarlowWeather
Will be nice and bright - and on view for months, so no biggie if anyone doesn't spot it tonight.
This was the view in my 8" telescope on Saturday night.
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@davidallengreen
We keep forgetting the lesson, over and over again: and that's why we keep losing.
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@oreillyconor
@Colmogorman
At which point the time circuit activates and they go back to 1985.
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The sound pressure wave from the 5 F-1 engines on the 1st stage of the Saturn V was so intense that during its 1st launch in Nov 1967 (Apollo 4), it collapsed the roof of the CBS broadcasting booth where Cronkite was covering the launch.
The booth was 5 miles away from the pad!
The Saturn V was an absolute UNIT
(sound up up)
🎥
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The appalling Home Office tweets are a reminder that they're coming for all EU citizens - and that means us Irish too. Don't kid yourselves that we're going to be treated specially in any way. This is the way the UK is now.
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Saturn and Jupiter getting closer and closer....and hanging over
#Waterford
this evening,
@daraobriain
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Early morning view at Dublin Airport, ahead of my jaunt to west London to watch QPR...
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@BeardedGenius
@MazzyK
There’s an ancient saying in Ireland that covers this behaviour: The Brits are at it again.
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That is just **stunning**.
This morning I pointed my telescope at the ISS.
Hi
@astro_matthias
, I hope you’re doing well in the current situation. Greetings from your hometown.
Credit:
@SeVoSpace
#iss
#station
#nasa
#esa
#dlr
#matthiasmaurer
#telescope
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My best ever Mars image - the Mariner Valley is that dark bit on the lower right, and Olympus Mons is the bright small circular dot left of center at the 10 o'clock position!
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Always a tough morning saying goodbye to a loved one. Good to see family, even in awful circumstances.
Did leave a Crunchie at my mother's grave this morning. She used to demand the one from my Selection Box as a kid...and well, traditions have to be upheld.
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@CarlowWeather
- from the Copper Coast last night.
Some of the best
#Aurora
pics I took of tonight's display.
First northern lights with structure that I've seen since Oct 2003. Am delighted - I've missed it.
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Out of the relegation zone - amazing turn around led by
@marcbircham
.
You wouldn't expect anything else from a favoured son of the Loft. 😉
@WaterfordFCie
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My timeline is full of happy people who have seen
#NorthernLights
- it's a joy to read and see.
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Just had a blazing row with a guy who plumped himself in my booked seat on the 1735 Heuston-Waterford train - he refused to move, I refused to back down.
I won. He's now been moved from seat to seat as people turn up to claim their booked seats. 🤣
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The poor sods on the Stena Europe Rosslare-Fishguard ferry, sheltering from the worst of
#StormArwen
off the Waterford coast here at Dunabrattin.
Used to take this ferry a lot up to 2019 when I moved home, didn't think the next time I saw it would be from my house..
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